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To retire into a den, or hole, and lie dormant in winter; to retreat and lie hid. [R.] G. Shaw.

A concealed hiding place; a burrow; a lair; a hole.

A kind of halter usually made of raw hide.

Act or state of lying hid, or lurking. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

Lying hid; concealed; latent. [R.]

A writ based upon the presumption that the person summoned was hiding. Blackstone.

A lying in concealment; hiding. [Obs.]

A rare sulphide of osmium and ruthenium found with platinum in Borneo and Oregon.

ded masses. It is essentially a silicate of alumina, lime, and soda, with some sodium sulphide, is often marked by yellow spots or veins of sulphide of iron, and is much valued for ornamental work. Called also lapis lazuli, and Armenian stone.

, 206.4. Symbol Pb (L. Plumbum). It is chiefly obtained from the mineral galena, lead sulphide.

t Indies. -- Leaf lard, lard from leaf fat. See under Lard. -- Leaf louse (Zoöl.), an aphid. -- Leaf metal, metal in thin leaves, as gold, silver, or tin. -- Leaf miner (Zoöl.), any one of various small lepidopterous and dipterous insects, which, in the larval stages, burrow in and eat the parenchyma of leaves; as,…

al, or some part of such skin, tanned, tawed, or otherwise dressed for use; also, dressed hides, collectively.

be in a certain state or condition; as, to lie waste; to lie fallow; to lie open; to lie hid; to lie grieving; to lie under one's displeasure; to lie at the mercy of the waves; the paper does not lie smooth on the wall.

[Obs.] See Lief, adv., and Had as lief, under Had. Full lief me were this counsel for to hide. Chaucer. Death me liefer were than such despite. Spenser.

To treat with lime, or oxide or hydrate of calcium; to manure with lime; as, to lime hides for removing the hair; to lime sails in order to whiten them. Land may be improved by draining, marling, and liming. Sir J. Child.

line of parentage. Both the lineage and the certain sire From which I sprung, from me are hidden yet. Spenser.

color and metallic luster, occurring in isometric crystals, and also massive. It is a sulphide of cobalt containing some nickel or copper.

The odd and peculiar petal in the Orchis family. See Orchidaceous.

alkaline caustic similar to potash and soda, but weaker. See Lithium. Lithia emerald. See Hiddenite.

To lurk; to lie hid. [Obs.] Chaucer.